T. S. Eliot Quotes, Tired Quotes, Dying Quotes

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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At the still point, there the dance is.

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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April is the cruellest month.

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

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